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Meanwhile the national media continues to shrug off the Orioles as if they're a team that basically doesn't exist. 

We got exactly two mentions in the Power Rankings article by Bleacher Report: in the list of all 30 teams (as #4, 3 spots behind a team that's 10-8), and that we have an "interesting matchup" coming up in the O's vs. Yanks.

Not a single word about our winning ways or the fact that until Sunday night we had the best winning percentage in all of baseball. Nope. The Orioles just can't catch a break. 

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What are the origins of power rankings anyway (not Stan's, but how this came to be as a national arbiter)? Fantasy league stuff for people who are too lazy to look up anything? Maybe I'm just old fashioned, the win column is all that really matters to me.

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1 hour ago, NashLumber said:

What are the origins of power rankings anyway (not Stan's, but how this came to be as a national arbiter)? Fantasy league stuff for people who are too lazy to look up anything? Maybe I'm just old fashioned, the win column is all that really matters to me.

Somewhere along the way, we've created a class of fan that is more interested in who "ought" to be considered the best instead of who has actually earned the right to the claim.  I think the pervasiveness of fantasy baseball nowadays has contributed a lot to the phenomenon.  Crazy.

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2 hours ago, allquixotic said:

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Meanwhile, the national media continues to shrug off the Orioles as if they're a team that basically doesn't exist. 

We got exactly two mentions in the Power Rankings article by Bleacher Report: in the list of all 30 teams (as #4, 3 spots behind a team that's 10-8), and that we have an "interesting matchup" coming up in the O's vs. Yanks.

Not a single word about our winning ways, or the fact that until Sunday night we had the best winning percentage in all of baseball. Nope. The Orioles just can't catch a break. 

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But they did moved them up 2 spots, from #6 to #4.

To me, this is a case of actions speaking louder than words.

 

Also, the ESPN rankings have the Orioles at # 3, and in the accompanying video, Tim Kurkjian has the Orioles at #1. ll B|

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/powerrankings_2017week3/ranking-mlb-teams-week-3-season

 

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16 minutes ago, OFFNY said:

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But they did moved them up 2 spots, from #6 to #4.

To me, this is a case of actions speaking louder than words.

 

Also, the ESPN rankings have the Orioles at # 3, and in the accompanying video, Tim Kurkjian has the Orioles at #1. ll B|

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/powerrankings_2017week3/ranking-mlb-teams-week-3-season

 

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After Mark Teixeira failed to include the Orioles in his top-5, Kurkjian jumped in and said ........ 

 

"This is not the one that I came up with, this is not the one that I sent in. I have the Orioles at # 1, and I have the Rockies at #5. With the Rockies pitching a little bit better in addition to their perennially good offense, I think it's time to start thinking about the Rockies and the Diamondbacks as potential contenders now ...... and I'm not sure that I thought that 3 weeks ago."

 

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